"I spent the whole day (Friday) trying to scoop water out of my tent. The puddles are several centimeters high and we lack functioning drainage," says Bassil Neggar.
He lives with hundreds of thousands of others in the Muwasi tent camp, where residents are doing what they can to try to fend off the wet winter weather.
Two weeks ago, Bassil Neggar bought a new tent for the equivalent of around 6,700 kronor because the sun was wearing down his old one during the summer months. But the new one is leaking too.
Around the camp, children run barefoot in mud puddles while women boil tea under the dark clouds. Some have sought shelter in destroyed buildings, even those in danger of collapsing, covering the gaping holes with plastic sheeting.
According to UN figures from earlier this year, up to 425,000 Gazans who were forced to leave their homes live in Muwasi, the vast majority of them in makeshift tents, following Israel's war against the terrorist group Hamas. The war forced a clear majority of the Gaza Strip's two million inhabitants to leave their homes.
Israel claims to be allowing in supplies such as blankets and tarpaulins to make everyday life easier for the needy population during the winter months, but according to aid organizations such as the UN World Food Program (WFP) and UNRWA, the influx is far from sufficient.
